Agricultural implement.



' A. lVIcK. WATERS.

AGRICULTURAL IMPLEMENT.

APPLICATION F|L|go'APn.14, m5.

AQAQWDM PatentedSept. 5,1916.

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`ANDBEYW lWIcK. WATERS, OF SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA.

AGRICULTURAL IMPLEMENT.

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Application filed April 14, 1915.

To all lwhom t fm 0,3/ concern Be it known that l,ANnnnwll/fcl.VVATERs, a. subject of the Kingdom of Great Britain, and at present residing in the city and county of San Francisco, State of California, (whose post-ofiice address is 402 New Call Building) have invented new and useful mprovements in Agricultural implements, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates more particularly to machines for pulverizing or mulshing plowed ground. j

Among the objects of this invention are to be provided a machine that will break up and pulverize clods; that is simple and economical to construct and operate; that will leave the surface of the ground level; that is positive in its operation; that may be adjusted to pulverize the soil to a desired depth.

@ther objects and advantages will appear as the description progresses.

In the drawings accompanying and forming part of the present specification, to which like reference characters have been applied, a simple form of putting this invention into practice is shown. l do not wish to be understood as confiningthis invention to the disclosures made in said drawing and description, as many variations may be introduced, within the spirit of this invention, as defined in the claim succeeding the said description.

The operations of plowing is often pur sued at the time the surface of the ground is dry and has a tendency to form clods when broken by the plow. lt is the nature of certain soil to form clods at the time of plowing, which clods later on dry and form hard lumps that resist the operation of such pulverizing implements as harrows, drags and the l-ike. Leaving the surface of the ground strewn with clods has very deleterious effect on the fertilizing and moisture retaining qualities of the soil, the clods exposing a. greater surface to evaporation than if the surface of the soil was covered with a pulver-ized mulsh, presenting the minimum area to evaporation, resulting in a conservation of moisture, a condition greatly to be desired, particularly in dry farming districts where the rainfall is comparatively light and the soil must be Worked while containing less moisture than in districts where con servation of moisture is of less importance.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented ept. 5, i916.

Serial No. 21,240.

In the accompanying one sheet of drawings 2. Figure 1 is a side elevationof a pulverizing machine constructed in accordance with this invention; a section of the main frame being broken away better to disclose the underlying structure. Fig 2 is a plan view from above of the same.

These drawings are diagrammatic and simply indicate a simple embodiment of this invention susceptible of many variations to fit special conditions, as to constructive materials and varying` conditions of operation. j ln detail the construction illustrated in the drawings includes the main frame, composed of the side beams '1 j oinedby the cross beams 2 2, forming a. rectangular frame having the superimposed longitudinal beams 3 3 secured to the cross beams 2 2 and ex- 'tending forward to the cross bolster 4l, rest `ing upon the axle tree 5 swiveled on the king bolt G. The main axle 7 is journaled in the bearings,8 8 attached to the rearward. tensions of the side beams 1 1. The traction wheels 9 9 are fixed on the rear axle 8 and support the rear end of the main frame. One of the rear wheels may be revoluble on the axle to facilitate turning corners. pulverizing elements consist of transverse disk shaft 17 that is jcurnaled in the brackets 1S, extending downward beneath the side beams 12 to which they are fixed.

The rotary cutting disks 2O are fixed on the shaft 17 spaced apart the required distance. These disks 20 preferably consist of thin circular blank of sheet steel with the edges cut away as illustrated in Fig. 1, to produce a chopping "effect when the disks are rotated in contact with the clods to be pulverized. The shaft 17 is rotated by the sprocket chain 21 engaging the sprocket Q2 fixed on the counter .shaft 15. The counter shaft 15 is rotated by a sprocket fixed on its end driven by the sprocket chain 2l engaging` the sprocket Q5 fixed on the revolving axle 7. The rotation of the taction wheel 5.) is communicated through the sprocket transmission gearing described, to the shaft 17 that is rotated at a higher speed than .the traction wheels 9, from which it derives its power. l

lChe spring teeth 26 are pivoted on thc transverse shaft E27 extending between the side beams 1Q, the teeth extending'downward between the disks 20, acting as a. rake for accumulating clods within the breaking The a Q6 of these teeth are springs 28 tached to-the cross bars 14. The springs 28 permit the teeth 26 to swing backward to Copies o! this patent may b e obtained for v,area ofthe disksQO. Theiipper extensions provided with the having their opposite ends atclear stumps, embedded rocks or other 0bstructions that they cannot-"dislodge and that might break the teeth or' lother part .of the When oneor moreof the teeth The'. lods accumulated in front of the teeth 26 are .chopped into pieces small enough tol pass :betweenfthe disks and the adjacent teeth; p can be spaced apa-rt on the shaft 17 and the intermediate teeth Q6 on the shaft 27, in accordance with the size it isfdesired to reduce the elodstofln very'cloddy ground it is preferable to have, a number 'of implements constructed in accordance with this invention sent around the field with the coarse pulverizer at the head, followed by successive implements in-whicli the disks and teeth are set closer together, until the desired p ulfverizing is accomplished by the successive.

operations. It is also evident that seeders and other forms of planters may be mounted upon this implement,v the seeds being planted in the furrows created by the teeth 526 .and covered by the resultant mulsli by It is evident that the disks suitable harrows or rollers attached to or following the pulverizei.

The swinging frame in which the disks T are mounted may be raised and lowered by the lever 29 pivotedV at 30 and provided with the extension crank 31 connectedto the side vbeams 12 byl thelinks 32 pivoted thereto.

The swinging frame being raised and lowered by swinging the lever 29 on its center 3'0 and locking the frame at 'the desired height by means of the latch 33 engaging the notchededge of the quadrant 34. During transportation the lever 29 is thrown forward until the disks and teeth 26 clear tliegroundgthe swinging frame being elevated to a position beneath the beams 3.

Having thus described this invention what I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent is: i i

A pulverizer having aswing frame, a transverse pivot rod carried by said frame, rake teeth pivoted intermediate their ends on said rod, a cross bar at the rear of said teeth and extending above the pivotal point thereof, spring means attached to the upper end of said teeth 'and to the cross bar to swing the upper end of said teeth toward the cross bar, and shoulders formed on the p teeth above their pivotal points for engagement with said cross bar, at which time the teeth are in proper vertical alinement.

Iii testimony wliereofJ have hereunto set 'my hand this 13th day of March, 1915.

ANDREW MCK. WATERS.

Witnesses BALDWIN VALE, XVM. B. STARR.

ve cents each, by addressing the "Commissioner of Intente,

Washington, D. C. 

